Attaching buttons



(No Model.)

J F. ATWOOD.

` ATTAGHING BUTT0NS,'&0. No. 285,781. Patented 088. 2, 1888.

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- fastening device.

. UNITED STATES` vPATENT OFFICE.

,JAMES E. ATWooD, or EoSToN, MASSACHUSETTS.

ATTAC'HING BUTTONS, see.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Lettere Patent No. 285,781, dated october 2, 1883.

i Application tiled February 28, 1883. (No model.)

Improvements in Attaching Buttons to Fabrics and other Materials, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates particularly to attaching buttons to garments or goods having more than one thickness of material, and especially, but not necessarily, to securing them to goods made of textile fabric. i

In the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference indicate like parts, Figure l is a view of a wire staple forming a Figs. 2, 3, and-i are sectional views, showing different steps or stages in the method of attaching the button. Fig. 5 is a plan of the under side of the upper or outer thickness with the button in position, the under or inner thickness having been torn away.

The fastening device consists of a piece of wire bent into therform of a staple, as shown, having a longer arm, A, terminating in a hook or loop, a., and a shorter arm, A', terminating in a hook or loop, a. The hooks are preferably bent back so as to be substantially parallel withv their respective arms.

The method of attaching the button to the goods is as follows: The two arms A A are first dropped through the two button-holes, and then, by means of an instrument especially constructed for the purpose, and described in a separate application for Letters Patent, the long arm A is grasped by means of its hook a .and drawn through the outer thickness, C, and slightly through a portion of the inner thickness, C', and thence out through the outer thickness, G, assuming the i position represented in Fig. 2. The short arm A is Vthen seized by means of its hook a and drawn down through the outer thickness, C, and back to the surface through the same opening as the long arm A, The two arms A A', being then side by side, and both projecting as in Fig. 3, are rapidly twisted by said instrument, cut off near the goods, and by straightening out the bunched portion (shown in Fig. 3) of the goods allowed to slip in between the thicknesses, as shown in Fig. 4. Their parallel or horizontal position prevents them from tearing the goods.

In applying the buttons by this method to n very thin goods, or fabric of a loose or open u texture, it is advisable', either by a sudden twist of the button orby means of a tool constructed for the purpose, to bend the vtwisted portion of the wire backside of or above the untwisted portion, as shown in Fig. 5. e

If desired, the arm A may not enter the second thickness, C.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is i l. The herein-described method of attaching buttons by means of a wire fastening to fabrics or other materials composed of two or more thicknesses, consisting in first passing the said fastening device through one or more of said thicknesses and through a portion of the next thickness, and then leaving the united ends of said fastening device between two of said thicknesses, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The herein-described method of attaching buttons by means of a wire fastening to fabrics or other materials composed of two or more thicknesses, consisting in first passing the fastening through one or more of said thicknesses, then twisting the two ends of the fistening together, and leaving them between two of said thicknesses, substantially as and for the purpose described.

3. The herein-described method of attaching` buttons by means of a wire fastening to` fabrics or other materials composed of two or more thicknesses, consisting in first passing the fastening through one or more of said thicknesses, twisting the two ends of the fastening together, and doubling back the twisted portion, as shown, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

4. As an improved article of manufacture, the herein-described device for applying buttons to fabrics or other materials, consisting of awire bent into the form of a staple, having two downwardly-projecting arms of unequal length and terminating in hooks, Whereby the said arms may be drawn into the said fabric or material for the purpose of securing the button thereto, substantially as set forth.

J AMES F. ATVOOD.

Titnessesz HENRY W. WILLIAMs, JOSEPH ISHBAUGH. 

